The Wits Sports calendar is off to an exhilarating start.

Renovations of the Charles Skeen Stadium on West Campus are due to be finished in March 2011 - an upsetting fact for sporting clubs who have temporarily lost their homes because of their position under the stadium's grandstands.

Swimming lessons are now available to students who were previously left on the sidelines of aquatic sport at Wits University.

Hosting the FIFA soccer World Cup will make South Africans happy for years to come, according to social scientists Georgios Kavetsos and Stefan Szymanski.

The basketball practices held in Hall 29 are both intense and competitive as up to 40 students compete for a spot on one of three university basketball teams. 

The Premier League is by far the richest and most watched football – or if you prefer the Americanism, ‘soccer’- league in the world.  It is run as a corporation with each participating associative club effectively acting as a shareholder. And it rakes in around £2 billion (R24 billion) in revenues annually.